The Highest & Lowest Grossing Video Game-Based Movies

It's official--Jerry Bruckheimer's latest movie, The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, has become the highest grossing movie based on a video game. Excluding DVD sales, the movie has made an impressive $312,583,548 worldwide as of publishing. This is great news for video game fans all over the world, video game-based movies typically don't fare so well with box office earnings and critic approval.

Unfortunately, most movie adaptations of video game franchises don't do so well in the box office. Now that we know that what film made the top of the list, what are some of the ones that didn't make much money at all? The following is a list of Hollywood's highest-to-lowest grossing films based on video games.1. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

There you have it, Postal is currently Hollywood's lowest grossed movie based on a video game. Certain movies, such as Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter have been notorious by the gaming community for being horrible movies. Compared to others, however, they didn't do too bad. With numerous movie adaptations of video games on the horizon, there is little doubt that many of them will become box office duds. Will any of them do as poorly as Double Dragon, or make as much money as Prince of Persia? Only time will tell.